Stuart Bell

Stuart Bell (16 May 1938-13 October 2012) was the Labour MP for Middlesbrough from 9 June 1983 to 13 October 2012, succeeding Arthur Bottomley and preceding Andy McDonald).

Biography
Stuart Bell was born in High Spen, County Durham, England in 1938, and he joined the Labour Party in 1964 and became a lawyer in 1970. He worked as an international lawyer in Paris until 1977, representing large multinational companies, and he was elected to the city council of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1980. In 1983, he was elected to Parliament as the MP for Middlesbrough, and he served as Second Church Estates Commissioner under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1997 to 2010. He died in office in 2012 at the age of 74.